biography
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Ekman, (Vagn) Walfrid
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| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1954)
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| biography:
| Oceanographer, born in Stockholm, Sweden. He began making contributions to oceanography while still a student at Uppsala University, with a report (1902) explaining why drift ice movement diverged from wind direction. After working at the International Laboratory for Oceanographic Research in Oslo (1902–8), he was appointed professor of mathematical physics at Lund (1910–39). He designed several instruments for investigating ocean currents, and his name is remembered in the common oceanographic terms Ekman layer and Ekman spiral. |
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